INDIAN LAND – The Camden Bulldogs entered their game with Indian Land needing a win to make the Class AAA Upper State football playoffs.

The Bulldogs, 2-7, 1-2, brought their running game in Jericho Murphy, and he responded with 267 yards rushing on 24 carries and three touchdowns to go with a stingy second-half Bulldog defense for a 31-17 win over the Warriors.

Indian Land forced a Camden punt and quickly moved to the Bulldogs’ 25.

ILHS senior receiver John Gregory broke open and David Loughry hit him to make it

Buford, rated No. 12 in Class AA, on the other hand, couldn’t muster much offense. The Jackets had 160 total yards. BHS quarterback Ryan Moore passed for 126 yards and Dalton Small led the ground attack with 39 yards.

Andrew Jackson High School’s Gavin Blackmon was the lone Lancaster County player to earn recognition at the weekly meeting of the Tri-County Football Coaches Association meeting on Tuesday at the Towne Tavern in Fort Mill.

Blackmon, in the Class A-AA-AAA awards, was honored as the defensive player of the week with 14 tackles in the Volunteers’ 26-14 home loss to Region IV-AA champion Lee Central.

Blackmon, for the game, garnered 14 tackles, 10 solo hits, three big hits, a pass break-up and graded out at 95 percent.

A pair of Lancaster County trench aces has been selected to play in the 70th annual Touchstone Energy Cooperatives North-South Bowl on Dec. 9 in Myrtle Beach.

Lancaster High School senior offensive lineman Keavius Barnes and Andrew Jackson High’s Dalton McKittrick have been chosen to play for the North team in the annual all-star football game which draws the state’s top senior football players.

The game kicks off at 12:30 p.m. at Myrtle Beach’s Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium.

Buford, rated No. 12 in Class AA, on the other hand, couldn’t muster much offense. The Jackets had 160 total yards. BHS quarterback Ryan Moore passed for 126 yards and Dalton Small led the ground attack with 39 yards.